Comments on: How ’bout a few Mass Effect 2 details? http://gamerlimit.com/2009/05/how-bout-a-few-mass-effect-2-details/ Gamer Limit Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:00:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: J.F. Fox http://gamerlimit.com/2009/05/how-bout-a-few-mass-effect-2-details/#comment-11855 J.F. Fox Sat, 23 May 2009 23:33:42 +0000 http://gamerlimit.com/?p=23007#comment-11855 Sounds nice. I'm glad they're revamping the whole exploration thing--being a huge sci-fi geek, that was the biggest draw of the game for me. I just hope they'll incorporate a system where the player can tell which planets have been explored, and which have not. >>> "Choices are more meaningful and there is a real risk that major support characters (i.e. anyone not Shepard) can and will die." <<< This worries me. The ME team seems to think that party members dying is all the work they need to do to give player decisions "consequences." This means that other characters are generally less-developed and non-integral to the plot, and at the same time gives the devs a way to claim there are real decisions, when there really aren't. That was my biggest beef with the original, and that doesn't look to change. Sounds nice. I’m glad they’re revamping the whole exploration thing–being a huge sci-fi geek, that was the biggest draw of the game for me. I just hope they’ll incorporate a system where the player can tell which planets have been explored, and which have not.

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“Choices are more meaningful and there is a real risk that major support characters (i.e. anyone not Shepard) can and will die.”
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This worries me. The ME team seems to think that party members dying is all the work they need to do to give player decisions “consequences.” This means that other characters are generally less-developed and non-integral to the plot, and at the same time gives the devs a way to claim there are real decisions, when there really aren’t. That was my biggest beef with the original, and that doesn’t look to change.

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